Quotes About Craftsmanship

Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.